Jun 16 2009 Will Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Girl-Go-Wild for 'Runaways'?
Girl-on-girl kissing. Aside from drinking, it's the most heavily encouraged activity in your dorm. Everyone wants to see it, but what if you can't find two drunk, attention-starved coeds to deliver it? Where do you go then?
Answer: to The Runaways, the upcoming biopic on Joan Jett and her early days with the all-girl band, which apparently involves girl-on-girl kissin'. Oh, but did I mention the kiss would involve 15-year-old Dakota Fanning? Yikes. Your woooooo!-or-not-to-woooooo! judgment call:
Life & Style reports that there's a makeout scene between Kristen's Joan and Dakota's Cherie Currie in the film, which is currently in rehearsals in Hollywood.
(Thanks for the link, Alena.)
Well, now we know what scene will get so blown out of proportion that it will incite controversy that completely overshadows every other aspect of the film.
Not here, though. At I Watch Stuff, I say we are done discussing a filmed kiss between consenting teenagers. Let's be mature. In Europe, it wouldn't even be a big deal. No one would be spit-taking the wine they're allowed to drink at an early age. Grow up, girl-on-girl kiss controversy-makers. End of discussion. Instead, let's blow out of proportion the even-less-actually-controversial subject of how Fanning's character, Cherie Currie, apparently went from being a Runaway to being a master chainsaw artist on the local news:
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Jan 26 2009 'Coraline' Cybernet-Only Trailer
OK, so sorry that last Coraline trailer I posted wasn't really a trailer so much as creator Neil Gaiman pretending he was hosting a personalized version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and promoting Borders). I promise this one is better:
Jan 22 2009 Dakota Fanning's Overwhelming Paleness Joining Robert Pattinson's Overwhelming Paleness?
E! Online is reporting that Dakota Fanning is in negotiations to star alongside Robert Pattinson (vampire) and Kristen Stewart (human) in New Moon (that's the Twilight sequel, for those of you who don't READ teen girl vampire romance):
I can exclusively report that the 14-year-old child star—she turns 15 on Feb. 23—is in talks to play Jane opposite Robert Pattinson & Co. in New Moon, the upcoming sequel to box office megahit Twilight.“There were no auditions,” a source reveals. “They just offered it to her outright, and now they’re in negotiations. They’ve been going back and forth.”
Jane is a member of Italy’s Volturi, the most deadly group of bloodsucking killers in author Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series.
In the casting notice we got our hands on earlier this month, Jane is described as a petite blonde with a “Botticelli angel-like face…[and] crimson irises.” While fellow Volturi guards Demetri & Felix “are three times the size of her, they are terrified of her,” the casting notice reads.
I don't know anything about Twilight aside from how often the vampire guy menacingly stares, but I thought a large part of the reason the studio was loving this series was that its fan base is so insane that they can cast whoever they want, regardless of notoriety or talent, and everyone will still see it, giving the films a huge profit margin. It seems pointless to cast a pricey, acclaimed actress when dubbing a voice over a drawing of Dracula with eyelashes would bring in the same box office numbers. And won't the weight of prosthetic fangs added to her head make her neck vertebrae telescope? Anyone more informed about Twilight/physics have some thoughts on this?
Oct 20 2008 'Push' Trailer Teaches That Superhero Eyes Dilate When They Do Superhero Magic
Someone's been paying attention: superhero movies are so hot right now. There's a new one coming out soon with some Heroes-esque, street clothes-wearing, no-name superheroes (thus saving the studio the money of paying royalties to John Batman, Lou Ironman, etc.). It's called Push, and here's the trailer:
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Sep 17 2008 Ain't Nothin' but a 'Hounddog'! ...Poster. For the Movie 'Hounddog'
Hounddog is getting a lot of publicity for containing a scene in which Dakota Fanning gets R'ed, but let's not forget that it also contains Dakota Fanning's shiny, wax-sealed face. Just a thin coating gives her career an extra six weeks of post-puberty shelf life.
Hounddog Poster [Trailer Addict]
Aug 19 2008 'Secret Life of Bees' Trailer Finally Gets to the Bottom of Bees
With all that buzzing and stinging and honey-making and seemingly-impossible flying and caste-based societying, you just knew something fishy was going on in those hives. Let's see what you've been hiding, bees...
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Aug 4 2008 'Winged Creatures' Trailer Sadly Lacks Both Bats and Harpies
Here's the trailer for Winged Creatures, a drama that follows five survivors of a random shooting who decide to make a movie that will draw obvious comparisons to Crash. Wondering why it's called Winged Creatures when my description makes no mention of winged creatures? It's a metaphor!
A moment of random violence erupts in an ordinary Los Angeles diner. The survivors (Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson) find that the meanings of their lives have changed. No matter how much their families and friends (Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Embeth Davidtz) attempt to understand, these individuals must follow their own paths to recovery seeking to regain trust in a world that now seems chaotic.A story of tragedy and hope for our times, Winged Creatures is a powerful ensemble drama that explores the notion that our lives are fleeting, like birds in flight, like winged creatures.
That is so true. I've always said life is like a winged creature. Only instead of birds, I always gave griffins as an example. And I refuse to give my age in anything but "griffin units." The word "year" does nothing to express the transitory nature of life, whereas "griffin units" evoke images of griffins, and how griffins fly, much like how life flies past. And how life is half eagle, half lion.
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